TRAIN, the nation’s premier learning management system for professionals and volunteers who protect the public’s health, would like to invite public health professionals involved with accreditation and performance improvement to the first of a three-part webinar series on accreditation, Public Health Accreditation & Competency Based Learning: A Model Based on the TRAIN Learning Management System, on November 15, 2011 at 2-3 pm ET.
Launched by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) on September 14, 2011, PHAB’s public health department accreditation process seeks to advance quality and performance within public health departments. Accreditation standards define the expectations for all public health departments that seek to become accredited. National public health department accreditation has been developed because of the desire to improve service, value, and accountability to stakeholders.1
Accreditation through PHAB provides a means for a department to identify performance improvement opportunities, to improve management, develop leadership, and improve relationships with the community. The process is one that will challenge the health department to think about what business it does and how it does that business. It will encourage and stimulate quality and performance improvement in the health department. It will also stimulate greater accountability and transparency.1
TRAIN’s one-hour webinar, Public Health Accreditation & Competency Based Learning: A Model Based on the TRAIN Learning Management System, will focus on Domain 8: Maintain a Competent Public Health Workforce. Topics such as the concept of TRAIN data integrity and the linkages between the Public Health Essential Services, Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals, Public Health Accreditation and TRAIN course objectives, description and core competency selection will be discussed and demonstrated. Scheduled presenters include Kaye Bender, Janet Place, C. Janie Cambron, Ron Bialek, and David Knapp.
Webinar Objectives
At the end of this webinar, learners will be able to:
- Recognize the key tracking requirements that meet accreditation standards.
- Explain Kentucky’s use of a self-assessment tool to analyze workforce training needs.
- List at least two reasons why core competencies matter for today’s public health workforce.
- Discuss how one state has delivered a workforce self-assessment survey tool and captured assessment data via the TRAIN learning management system.
Register on TRAIN today as seating is limited! To register, click here and select the “Registration” tab, which will prompt you to either login to TRAIN if you already have an account or create a new account if you do not have a TRAIN account.
If there are questions regarding the webinar, please contact Lois Banks (lbanks@phf.org).
Save the Dates for the second and third webinars in this series: January 24, 2012 and March 20, 2012.